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MORE BORROWINGS 



Compiled by Ladies of the First Unitarian 
Church of Oakland, California 




DEC 16 1891 




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San Francisco 
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Copyrighted 1S91 



Sarah S. B. Yule and Mary S. Keene 



" Borrowings," a small volume issued Christ- 
mas '89, HAVING MET WITH SO LARGE A MEASURE 
OF FAVOR, THE COMPILERS HAVE BEEN ENCOUR- 
AGED TO OFFER A SECOND VOLUME, " MORE BOR- 
ROWINGS," TRUSTING THAT IT WILL PROVE EQUALLY 
ACCEPTABLE. 

Oakland, California, 1891. 



The compilers acknowledge with thanks the 
courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Com- 
pany, Dr. Edward W. Emerson, Mrs. E. R. Sill 
and others, in allowing the insertion of selections 
from works of which they own the copyright. 



THOUGH THOU HAVE TIME 

BUT FOR A LINE, BE THAT SUBLIME. 

— Lowell. 



If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we 
could cast the gift of a lovely thought into 
the heart of a friend, that would be giving 

AS THE ANGELS MUST GIVE. —George Macdonald. 



When I consider what some books have done for 
the world, and what they are doing, how they keep 
up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe 
pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold 
and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign 
lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth 
from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and 

thank God for books. ' —James Freeman Clarke. 



They are never alone that are accompanied by 

noble thoughts. — Sir Philip Sidney. 

Take care that the divinity within you has a credit- 
able charge to preside over. —Marcus Aurelius. 

If you want your neighbor to know what the Christ 
spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done 

for you. —Henry Ward Beecher. 

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest 
aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up 
and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to 
follow where they lead. —Louisa May Alcott. 

" Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in our May, 
And hive the thrifty sweetness for December." 

Hearts only thrive on varied good ; 

And he who gathers from a host 
Of friendly hearts his daily food, 

Is the best friend that we can boast. 

— Holland. 



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Like the bird be thou, 

That for a moment rests 
Upon the topmost bough : 
He feels the branch to bend 
And yet as sweetly sings, 
Knowing that he has wings. 

— Victor Hugo. 

I wonder did you ever count 

The value of one human fate; 
Or sum the infinite amount 

Of one heart's treasure, and the weight 
Of life's one venture, and the whole 
Concentrate purpose of a soul. 

— Adelaide A. Procter. 



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If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? 

— Thoreau. 

In running their race, men of birth look back too 
much, which is the mark of a bad runner. —Bacon. 

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into 
the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return 

to paradise. —Emerson. 

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, 
with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no 
dictionary, but is understood all the world over. 

— Emerson. 

Doubt is not itself a crime. All manner of doubt, 
inquiry about all manner of objects, dwells in every 
reasonable mind. It is the mystic working of the 
mind on the object it is getting to know about. 

— Carlyle. 

Every inmost aspiration is God's angel undefiled — 
And in every "Oh, my father," slumbers deep a 
"Here, my child." —Thoiuck. 

The rest which does us all good, and enables us to 
do our work well, is the rest of the heart— the Sabbath 

of the SOUl. —James Freeman Clarke. 



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Earth captive held 

By winter, deems him a foe — 
That he can weld 

Such fetters ; deep down below 
Her violets, close-celled 

Flutter to go. 

Earth, when she 's free 

To bud and blow, 
And feel through every fiber of each tree 

The strength to grow, 
Will say, '"Twas Winter gave it me," 

And in the sunshine bless the snow. 

—Alice Ward Bailey 



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; ' Could I find a word 
As pure as the rose, 
Half hid in the wayside 

Grass that grows, 
Nor aught of itself 

Intends or knows ; 
That word is the word 
I would say. 

( Could I make a song 

As careless of art 
As the sparrow's trill 

That should seem a part 
Of my life, a blessing 

From 'my heart; — 

That song I would sing 

Thee to-day." 



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FRIENDSHIP. 

A ruddy drop of manly blood 

The surging sea outweighs ; 
The world uncertain comes and goes ; 

The lover rooted stays. 
I fancied he was fled, — 

And, after many a year, 
Glowed unexhausted kindliness, 

Like daily sunrise there. 
My careful heart was free again, 

O friend, my bosom said, 
Through thee alone the sky is arched, 

Through thee the rose is red ; 
All things through thee take nobler form, 

And look beyond the earth, 
The mill-round of our fate appears 

A sun-path- in thy worth. 
Me, too, thy nobleness has taught 

To master my despair; 
The fountains of my hidden life 

Are through thy friendship fair. 

— Emerson. 



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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 

So near is God to man, 
When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 

The youth replies, I can. —Emerson. 

We speak with awed tenderness of our guardian 
angels; but have we not all had our guiding angels, 
who came to us in visible form, and recognized or 
unknown, kept beside us on our difficult path until 
they had done for us all that they could? 

— Lucy Lav com. 

Seek not to pour the world into thy little mould, 
Each as its nature is, its being must unfold ; 
Thou art but as a string in life's vast sounding-board, 
And other strings as sweet may not with thine accord. 

— W. W. Story. 



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Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with 

your loftiest thoughts. —Thoreau. 

You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you have 
fulfilled that of being pleasant. —Charles Buxton. 

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of 
wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out ; 
but it is the light by which the world looks for and 
finds merit. -Lowell. 

Give to a gracious message 
A host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell 
Themselves when they be felt. 

—Shakespeare. 

Good intentions are, at least, the seed of good 
actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave 
it to the soil and the seasons whether he or any other 

gather the fruit. — Sir William Temple. 

"In bright or brighter places, wheresoever ye may 
roam — 
Ye look away from earth-land and ye murmur, 

'Where is home?' 
Homeless hearts, God is home." 



"If fortune, with a smiling face, 
Strew roses in our way, 
When shall we stoop to pick them up? 
To-day, my love, to-day. 

"But should she frown with face of care, 
And talk of coming sorrow, 
When shall we grieve, if grieve we must? 
To-morrow, oh, to-morrow." 



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CHRISTMAS IN CALIFORNIA. 

Can this be Christmas — sweet as May, 
With drowsy sun, and dreamy air, 

And new grass pointing out the way 
For flowers to follow, everywhere? 

Has Time grown sleepy at his post, 
And let the exiled summer back, 

Or is it her regretful ghost, 
Or witchcraft of the almanac? 

Before me, on the wide, warm bay, 

A million azure ripples run ; 
Round me the sprouting palm-shoots lay 

Their shining lances to the sun. 

A languor of deliciousness 

Fills all the sea-enchanted clime ; 

And in the blue heavens meet, and kiss, 
The loitering clouds of summer-time. 

O wondrous gift, in goodness given, 
Each hour anew our eyes to greet, 

An earth so fair — so close to Heaven, 
'Twas trodden by the Master's feet. 

— Edward Rowland Sill. 
Oakland, California. 



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No process is so fatal as that which would cast all 
men in one mould. Every human being is in- 
tended to have a character of his own, to be what no 
other is, to do what no other can do. Our common 
nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It 
is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear 
innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human 
being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform 
abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, 
and which no conscience but his own can teach. 

— Channing. 



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We always weaken what we exaggerate. 

— La Harpe. 

He spoils his house and throws his pains away 
Who, as the sun veers, builds his windows o'er, 

For should he wait, the light, some time of day, 
Would come and sit beside him in his door. 

— Alice Cary. 

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of 
a mother's love fixed in permanent outline. 

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. 
It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden 
of to-day, that the weight is more than a man can bear. 

— George Macdonald. 

Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly 
joyous, — a spirit all sunshine ; graceful from very glad- 
ness, beautiful because bright. —Cariyie. 

Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like 
A star new-born that drops into its place, 

And which once circling in its placid round, 
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. 

» — Lowell. 



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FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. 

Let no threatening ill appall thee, 
Trust in God what-e'er befall thee, 
Serve him with thy latest breath ; 
Be thou faithful unto death ! 

Men may praise thee, men may jeer thee, 
Ever keep in sight to cheer thee 
What the heavenly Master saith, 
Be thou faithful unto death ! 

• Let no loss or suff'ring rue thee, 
God at last will triumph through thee, 
Crown thee with the victor's wreath ; 
Be thou faithful unto death ! 

— Chas. W. Wendte. 



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In the man whose childhood has known caresses 
there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched 
to gentle issues. —George Eliot. 

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. —Emerson. 

The first condition of human goodness is some- 
thing to love; the second, something to reverence. 

— George Eliot. 

Lied is a rough phrase ; say he fell from truth. 

— Browning. 

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's 
life as in a book. —Thoreau. 

If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a 
prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much 
over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; 
and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose 
to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the 
eternal things as prelude and preparation. 

— Minot J. Savage. 



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Jealousy is a secret avowal of inferiority. 

— Massillon. 

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star. 

— P. T. Barnum. 

The world is a school, and the business of its occu- 
pants, the pursuit of an education fitting them to 
graduate into the invisible university of God. 

— W. R. Alger. 

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not 

live much tO himself. —Montaigne. 

Where much is given, much shall be required. 
There are never privileges to enjoy without corre- 
sponding duties to fulfil in return. —Phillips Brooks. 

We proudly say "we are equal." In the largest 
sense before God we are, but in every other sense we 
are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same 
tastes, the same habits. One must complement the 
other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. 

— Caroline Hazard. 

Man's rank is his power to uplift. 

— George Macdonald. 



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I may not reach the heights I seek, 

My untried strength may fail me ; 
Or, half-way up the mountain peak 

Fierce tempests may assail me ; 
But though my goal I never see 
This thought shall always dwell w 7 ith me — 
I will be worthy of it. 

I may not triumph in success, 

Despite my earnest labor; 
I may not grasp results that bless 

The efforts of my neighbor. 
But though life's dearest joy I miss 
There lies a nameless strength in this — 
I will be worthy of it. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



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How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water 
on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are 
just blossoming. Can any house be said to be fur- 
nished without them ? Shall we be so forward to 
pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? 
These are surely her finest influences. So may the 
season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. 

Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, 

what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. 

— Thorean. 



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DAFFODILS. 

I wandered lonely as a cloud 

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 
When all at once I saw a crowd, — 

A host of golden daffodils 
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 

Continuous as the stars that shine 

And twinkle on the milky way, 
They stretched in never-ending line 

Along the margin of a bay : 
Ten thousand saw I, at a glance, 
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. 

The waves beside them danced, but they 
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; — 

A poet could not but be gay 
In such a jocund company : 

I gazed— and gazed — but little thought 

What wealth the show to me had brought. 

For oft, when on my couch I lie, 

In vacant or in pensive mood, 
They flash upon that inward eye 

Which is the bliss of solitude ; 

And then my heart with pleasure fills, 

And dances with the daffodils. 

— Wordsworth. 



I ho]d it the duty of one who is gifted, 
And royally dowered in all men's sight, 

To know no rest till his life is lifted 
Fully up to the great gift's height. 

Great gifts should be worn like a crown befitting, 
And not like gems on a beggar's hands ; 

And the toil must be constant and unremitting 
That lifts up the king to the crown's demands. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 

I am one who holds a treasure 
And a gem of wondrous cost; 

But I mar my heart's deep pleasure 
With the fear it may be lost. 

Oh for some heavenly token, 

By which I may be sure 
The vase shall not be broken, 

Dispersed the essence pure. 

Then spoke the angel of mothers 
To me in gentle tone, 
" Be kind to the children of others, 
And thus deserve thine own." 

—Julia Ward Howe. 



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Children have more need of models than of critics. 

—Joubert. 

That which is not for the interest of the whole 
swarm is not for the interest of a single bee. 

— Marcus Aurelius. 

After every storm the sun will smile, for every 
problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible 

duty is to be of good cheer. —William R. Alger. 

At last to be identified ! 

At last, the lamps upon thy side, 

The rest of life to see ! 
Past midnight, past the morning star ! 
Past sunrise ! Ah ! what leagues there are 

Between our feet and day ! 

— Emily Dickinson. 

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to 
choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your 
faults ; still less of others' faults. In every person who 
comes near you look for what is good and strong; 
honor that; rejoice in it; as you can, try to imitate it, 
and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when 
their time comes. —Ruskin. 



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Why make we moan 
For loss that doth enrich us yet 
With upward yearnings of regret. 

— Lowell. 

Oh world, as God has made it ! All is beauty : 
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. 

— Browning . 

Age is opportunity no less 
Than youth itself, though in another dress ; 
And, as the evening twilight fades away, 
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. 

— Longfellow. 

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to ex- 
clude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. 

— Thoreau. 

Belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for 
nothing, — characterizes all valuable minds. 

— Emerson. 

Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day 
Which from the night shall drive thy peace away. 
In months of sun so live that months of rain 
Shall still be happy. —Whittier. 

(Translation.) 



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AT CHRYSTEMASSE TYDE. 

"Two sorrie Thynges there be — 
A}', three ; 
A Neste from which ye Fledglings have been taken, 

A Lambe forsaken, 
A redde leaf from ye Wilde Rose rudely shaken. 

"Of gladde Thynges there be more — 
Ay, four; 
A Larke above ye olde Neste blythely singing, 

A Wilde Rose clinging 
In safety to a Rock : a Shepherde bringing 
A Lambe, found, in his armes, and Chrystemasse 
Bells a-ringing." 



I know there are voices I do not hear, 

And colors I do not see ; 
I know that the world has numberless doors 

Of which I have not the key. 

— Minot J. Savage. 

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. 

— Shakespeare. 

What had the life of Jesus been to us, if we had 
only the records of his sermons, without the record of 

his going about doing good. —Bishop Simpson. 

When I say that it was March, I need add nothing 
about the weather. —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. 

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend your- 
self on the work before you, well assured that the 
right performance of this hour's duties will be the 
best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. 

— Emerson. 

"Medicine for the soul." 

— Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. 



The virtue which we appreciate, we to some 
extent appropriate. —Thoreau. 

"He who is always inquiring what people will say, 
will never give them opportunity to say anything great 
about him." 

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one 
who does not mistake it for a great deal. 

— Blanco White. 

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because 
we have within us the beginning and the possibility 

of it. —Phillips Brooks. 

Never does a man portray his own character more 
vividly than in his manner of portraying another's. 

— Richter. 

The nimble lie 
Is like the second-hand upon a clock ; 
We see it fly, while the hour-hand of truth 
Seems to stand still ; and yet it moves unseen, 
And wins at last, for the clock will not strike 
Till it has reached the goal. —Longfellow, 



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I know of no more encouraging fact than the un- 
questionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a 
conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to 
paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and 
so make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more 
glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and 
medium through which we look, which morally we 
can do. — Thoreau. 



What we like determines what we are, and is the 
sign of what we are ; and to teach taste is inevitably 
to form character. —Ruskin. 

A noble deed is a step toward God. 

—J. G. Holland. 

A small drop of ink, 
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces 
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. 

— Byron. 

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the 

Objects he pursues. —Marcus Aurelius. 

Friends — those relations that one makes for one's 

Sell. — Deschamps. 

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was 

born a twin. —Byron. 

And where we love is home, 
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. 
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. 

— Holmes. 



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Every day brings a ship, 
Every ship brings a word ; 

Well for those who have no fear, 
Looking seaward well assured 
That the word the vessel brings 

Is the word they wish to hear. 

— Emerson. 

Would 'st shape a noble life? Then cast 
No backward glances toward the past, 
And though somewhat be lost and gone, 
Yet do thou act as one new-born ; 
What each day needs, that shalt thou ask, 
Each day will set its proper task. —Goethe. 



THE FOOLS PRAYER. 

The royal feast was done; the King 
Sought some new sport to banish care, 

And to his jester cried : "Sir Fool, 

Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!" 

The jester doffed his cap and bells, 
And stood the mocking court before ; 

They could not see the bitter smile 
Behind the painted grin he wore. 

He bowed his head, and bent his knee 
Upon the monarch's silken stool ; 

His pleading voice arose : " O Lord, 
Be merciful to me, a fool ! 

"No pity, Lord, could change the heart 
From red with wrong to white as wool ; 
The rod must heal the sin: but Lord, 
Be merciful to me, a fool ! 

'"Tis not by guilt the onward sweep 
Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay ; 
'Tis by our follies that so long 
We hold the earth from heaven away. 



'/These clumsy feet, still in the mire, 
Go crushing blossoms without end ; 
These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust 
Among the heart-strings of a friend. 

"The ill-timed truth we might have kept — 

Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? 
The word we had not sense to say — 
Who knows how grandly it had rung? 

"Our faults no tenderness should ask, 

The chastening stripes must cleanse them all; 
But for our blunders — oh, in shame 
Before the eyes of heaven we fall. 

"Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; 

Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool 
That did his will ; but, Thou, O Lord, 
Be merciful to me, a fool !" 

The room was hushed ; in silence rose 

The King, and sought his gardens cool, 
And walked apart, and murmured low, 
"Be merciful to me, a fool!" 

— Edward Rowland Sill. 



Beware of despairing about yourself. 

— St. Augustine. 

The exaltation of talent, as it is called, above vir- 
tue and religion, is the curse of the age. —Charming. 

Live pure, speak truth, right wrong, 
Else wherefore born? 

— Tennyson. 

No wind serves him who has no destined port. 

— Montaigne. 

Who is dumb? He who does not know how to 
say kind things at the proper time. —Hindu. 

"If you would have a happy family life, remember 
two things, — in matters of principle, stand like a rock ; 
in matters of taste, swim with the current." 



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If you were born to honor, show it now: 
If put upon you, make the judgment good 

That thought you worthy Of it. —Shakespeare. 

As in the silence of night the ear catches the least 
sound, so in the solitude of reflection the mind detects 
soft and delicate strains of thought, unheard in the 

bustle of the Crowd. —Prentice Mulford. 

Our high respect for a well read man is praise 
enough for literature. —Emerson. 

Let nothing disturb thee; 

Nothing affright thee ; 

All things are passing ; 

God never changeth. —Longfellow. 

(Santa Teresa's Book-Mark.) 

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in 
the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, 
a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours. 

— Hamerton. 

' l They that on glorious ancestry enlarge 
Produce their debt instead of their discharge." 



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EACH AND ALL. 

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown 
Of thee from the hill-top looking down ; 
The heifer that lows in the upland farm, 
Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm ; 
The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, 
Deems not that great Napoleon 

Stops his horse, and lists with delight, 
Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height ; 
Nor knowest thou what argument 
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. 
All are needed by each one ; 
Nothing is fair or good alone. —Emerson. 



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Home is everywhere to thee, 
Who canst thine own dwelling be. 

— Joseph Beaumont. 

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is 
never surmounted, love is never outgrown. 

— Emerson. 

Our to-days make our to-morrows, and our present 
lives determine the grade on which we must enter any 

next life. —MinotJ. Savage. 

What man is there whom contact with a great soul 
will not exalt ? A drop of water upon the petal of a 
lotus glistens with the splendors of the pearl. 

— Hindu, 

Of nothing can we be more sure than this : that, if 
we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify 
no Other. —Martineau. 

"To see the spider sit and spin 
Shut with her web of silver in, 
You'd never, never, never guess 
The way she gets her dinner." 



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Some days must needs be full of gloom, 
Yet must we use them as we may ; 

Talk less about the years to come, 
Give love, and labor more, to-day. 

What our hand findeth, do with might ; 

Ask less for help, but stand or fall, 
Each one of us in life's great fight, 

As if himself and God were all. 

— Alice Cary. 



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Nature never did betray 
The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, 
Through all the years of this our life, to lead 
From joy to joy: for she can so inform 
The mind that is within us, so impress 
With quietness and beauty, and so feed 
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, 
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, 
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 
The dreary intercourse of daily life, 
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb 
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold 
Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon 
Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; 
And let the misty mountain winds be free 
To blow against thee ; and, in after years, 
When these wild ecstacies shall be matured 
Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind 
Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, 
Thy memory be as a dwelling place 
For all sweet sounds and harmonies ; oh ! then, 
It solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, 
Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts 
Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, 
And these my exhortations ! —Wordsworth. 



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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for 

all I have not Seen. —Emerson. 

The most dangerous flattery is the inferiority of 
those who surround US. —Madame Swetchine. 

Reverence the highest, have patience with the 
lowest. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble 
that lies at thy feet. —Margaret Fuller. 

One adequate support 
For the calamities of mortal life 
Exists, one only : — an assured belief 
That the procession of our fate, howe'er 
Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being 
Of infinite benevolence and power ; 
Whose everlasting purposes embrace 
v All accidents, converting them to good. 

— Wordsworth. 



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Let the old life be covered by the new, 
The old past, so full of sad mistakes ; 

Let it be wholly hidden from the view 
By deeds as white and silent as snowflakes, 

Ere the earth life melt in the eternal spring. 

Let the white mantle of repentance fling 

Soft drapery about it, fold on fold, 

Even as the new snow covers up the old. 

— Louise Chandler Moulton. 

A dewdrop, falling on the wild sea wave, 
Exclaimed in fear, " I perish in this grave ! " 
But, in a shell received, that drop of dew 
Unto a pearl of marvelous beauty grew, 
And happy now the grace did magnify 
Which thrust it forth, as it had feared, to die ; 
Until again, "I perish quite," it said, 
Torn by a rude diver from its ocean bed. 
Oh, unbelieving! so it came to gleam 
Chief jewel in a monarch's diadem. 

— Persian — Trench. 



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How soon a smile of God can change the world ! 
How we are made for happiness ! —Browning. 

Discharge aright 
The simple dues with which each day is rife, — 

Yea, with thy might. 
Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise 

Will life be fled. —Schiller. 

Earth seemed more sweet to live upon 
More full of love, because of him. 

— Lowell. 

Come what come may, 
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. 

— Shakespeare. 

A man, he seems, of cheerful yesterdays, 

And Confident to-morrows. —Wordsworth. 

Get work : 
Be sure it is better than what you work to get. 

— E. B. Browning . 



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Culture implies all which gives a mind possession 

of its powers. —Emerson. 

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook 

Unless the deed go with it. —Shakespeare. 

Eyes are not so common as poets would think, or 
poets would be plentier. —Lowell. 

Error is none the better for being common, nor 
truth the worse for having lain neglected. 

— John Locke. 

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the 
second with a good word, and the third with a good 
deed, I entered Paradise. —Zoroaster. 

Life is too short to waste, 



'Twill soon be dark; 
Up! mind thine own aim, and 

God speed the mark! —Emerson. 



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The year's at the spring, 
And day's at the morn ; 
Morning's at seven; 
The hill-side's dew-pearled; 
The lark's on the wing; 
The snail's on the thorn ; 
God's in his heaven — 
All's right with the world. 

— Browning 

"Ask God to give thee skill 
For comfort's art, 
That thou may'st consecrated be, 

And set apart 
Unto a life of sympathy ! 
For heavy is the weight of ill 

For every heart, 
And comforters are needed much 
Of Christ-like touch." 



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The essence of intellectual living does not reside 
in extent of science or in perfection of expression, but 
in a constant preference for higher thoughts over 
lower thoughts. Here is the true secret of that fascin- 
ation which belongs to intellectual pursuits, that they 
reveal to us a little more, and yet a little more, of the 
eternal order of the Universe, establishing us so firmly 
in what is known, that we acquire an unshakable con- 
fidence in the laws which govern what is not, and 
never can be, known. Philip Gilbert Hamerton. 



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When we consider we are bound to be serviceable 
to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall per- 
ceive there is a common tie of nature and relation 

between US. —Marcus Aurelius. 

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilder- 
ness of warning. —Lowell. 

He who loves best his fellow-man 
Is loving God the holiest way he can. 

— Alice Cary. 

Better be cold than assume to feel. In truth, 
nothing is so cold as an assumed, noisy enthusiasm. 
Its best emblem is the northern blast of winter, which 
freezes as it roars. —Charming. 

Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens 

all locks, 
Is not 1 'will, but I must, I must, /must, — and I do it. 

— A. H. dough. 

"To speak wisely may not always be easy, but not 
to speak ill requires only silence." 



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'Tis looking downward makes one dizzy. 

—Browning. 

Even in ordinary life, contact with nobler natures 
arouses the feeling of unused power and quickens the 
consciousness of responsibility. —Canon Westcott. 

Every brave heart must treat society as a child, and 
never allow it to dictate. —Emerson. 

Adversity is like the period of the former and latter 
rains, — cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to 
animal ; yet from thence come the flower and the fruit, 
the date, the rose, and the pomegranate. 

— Sir Walter Scott. 

Machinery just meant 

To give thy soul its bent, 
Try thee and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed . . . 

Then welcome each rebuff 

That turns earth's smoothness rough, 
Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! 

Be our joys three parts pain ! 

Strive and hold cheap the strain ; 

Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never 

Grudge the throe. —Browning. 



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If there is any person for whom you feel dislike, 
that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. 

—R. Cecil. 

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or 
behavior, like the wish to scatter joy around us. 

— Emerson. 

Experience shows that success is due less to ability 
than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to 

his work, body and SOUl. —Charles Buxton. 

It is not written, blessed is he that feedeth the 
poor, but he that considereth the poor. A little 
thought and a little kindness are often worth more 
than a great deal of money. —Raskin. 

He prayeth best, who loveth best 

All things both great and small ; 

For the dear God who loveth us, 

He made and loveth all. —Coleridge. 

The finest qualities of our natures, like the bloom 
on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate 
handling. —Thoreau. 



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MEMORY. 

My mind lets go a thousand things, 
Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, 
And yet recalls the very hour — 
'Twas noon by yonder village tower, 
And on the last blue noon of May — 
The wind came briskly up this way, 
Crisping the brook beside the road, 
Then pausing here, set down its load 
Of pine scents, and shook listlessly 
Two petals from that wild-rose tree. 

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 



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God will not mock the hope he giveth, 
No love he prompts shall vainly plead. 

— Whittier. 

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil 
another. —George Eliot. 

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past 
and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene 
and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so? 

— Thoreau. 

Defer not charities till death ; for certainly, if a 
man weigh it rightly, he that doeth so, is rather liberal 
of another man's than his own. —Bacon. 

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the 
misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never 
come. —Lowell. 

Just because there's fallen 

A snow-flake on his forehead, 

He must go and fancy 

'Tis winter all the year ? —t.b. Aldrich. 



I expect to pass through this life but once. If 
therefore there is any kindness I can show, or any 
good I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, 
let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this 

way again. —Mrs, A. B. Hegeman. 

Build a little fence of trust around to-day, 
Fill the space with loving deeds and therein stay ; 
Look not through the sheltering bars upon to- 
morrow, 
God will help thee bear what comes of joy, or 

Sorrow. —Mary Frances Butts. 



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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to 
look through each other's eyes for an instant? 

— Thoreau. 

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep 
alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the 

beautiful. —Lowell. 

Moderation is the silken string running through 
the pearl chain of all virtues. —Bishop Hail. 

I think that we should treat our minds as innocent 
and ingenuous children whose guardians we are, be 
careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on 
their attention. —Thoreau. 

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, 
which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call 
a man cold, when he is only sad. —Longfellow. 

In a small chamber friendless and unseen, 
Toiled o'er his types one poor unlearned young 
man; 
The place was dark, ungarnitured and mean ; — 
Yet there the freedom of a race began. 

— Lowell. 

(Said of Garrison.) 



Let us be such as help the life of the future. 

— Zoroaster. 

The rapidity with which the human mind lends 
itself to the standard around it gives us the most 
pertinent warning as to the company we keep. 

— Lowell. 

"Use Time well, and you will get from his hand 
more than he will take from yours." 

A good book, whether a novel or not, is one that 
leaves you farther on than when you took it up. If, 
when you drop it, it drops you down in the same old 
spot, with no finer outlook, no cleared vision, no 
stimulated desires for that which is better and higher, 

it is in no Sense a good book. —Anna Warner. 

The fox condemns the trap, not himself. 

— William Blake. 

This is my youth, — its hopes and dreams, 
How strange and shadowy it all seems, 

After these many years ! 
Turning the pages idly, so, 
I look with smiles upon the woe, 

Upon the joy with tears ! —Aidrich. 



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Revelation of God to man must of necessity partake 
of the imperfections of the medium through which it 
comes. As pure water from heaven, falling upon and 
filtering through earth, must gather impurities in its - 
course, differing in amount and kind according to the 
earth, even so the pure divine truth, filtering through 
man's mind, must take imperfections characteristic of 
the man and of the age. Such filtrate must be redis- 
tilled in the alembic of reason to separate the divine 
truth from the earthy impurities. —Joseph Le Conte. 



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Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful. 
Beauty is God's hand-writing. —Kingsley. 



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BEAUTY. 

Then I said, "I covet truth ; 

Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; 
I leave it behind with the games of youth :" — 

As I spoke, beneath my feet 
The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, 

Running over the club-moss burrs ; 
I inhaled the violet's breath ; 

Around me stood the oaks and firs ; 
Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; 

Over me soared the eternal sky, 

Full of light and of deity ; 

Again I saw, again I heard, 

The rolling river, the morning bird ; — 

Beauty through my senses stole ; 

I yielded myself to the perfect whole. 

— Emerson. 



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A consideration of petty circumstances is the tomb 
of great things. —Voltaire. 

It is true that a little philosophy inclineth a man's 
mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth 
men's minds about to religion. —Bacon. 

Life means, be sure, 

Both heart and head, — both active, both complete, — 

And both in earnest. —e. b. Browning. 

When we climb to heaven 'tis on the rounds of love 
to men. —Whittier. 

The tenderness that apologizes for wickedness is 
the worst form of cruelty. - charming. 

They that can walk at will where the works of the 

Lord are reveal 'd 
Little guess what joy can be got from a cowslip out 

of the field; 
Flowers to these "spirits in prison" are all they can 

know of the spring, 
They freshen and sweeten the wards like the waft of 

an angel's wing. —Tennyson. 

(In the Children's Hospital.) 



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One learns more metaphysics from a single tempta- 
tion than from all the philosophers. —Lowell. 

'Tis not what a man does which exalts him ; but 
what a man would do! —Browning. 

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. 

— T hove an. 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less 

difficult to each Other? —George Eliot. 

Even when the bird walks we see that he has wings. 

— Lemoine. 

Death knits as well as parts. —Lowell. 

Our times are in His hand, 

Who saith, "A whole I planned," 

Youth shows but half; trust 

God, see all, nor be afraid. —Browning. 

"The lie of an action is greater than the lie of a 
word." 



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Ah, why should we wear black for the guests of 
Ood ? —Ruskin. 

The blessed work of helping the world forward, 
happily does not wait to be done by perfect men. 

— George Eliot. 

Silk comes from a worm, gold from rock, the lotus 
from mud. . . . He who has superior qualities be- 
comes distinguished through their development and 
expression. What signifies noble birth ? —Hindu. 

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, 
as if you meant to spend your life there, never omit- 
ting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking 
a true word, or making a friend. —Ruskin. 

I would say to all : use your gentlest voice at home. 
Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price ; for it 
will be worth more to you in days to come than the 
best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy, like a 
lark's song, to a hearth at home. Train it to sweet 
tones now and it will keep in tune through life. 

— Elihu Burritt. 



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"Make of your grief apedestal on which to stand. " 

And for the things I see 

I trust the things to be. —Whittier. 

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not 
only a present evil, but that you have increased a 

habit. —Epictetus. 

Receive your thoughts as guests, but treat your 
desires as children. —Chinese. 

The profit of a book is according to the sensibility 
of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion 
sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds 

and publishes it. —Emerson. 

The cry of the age is more for fraternity than for 
charity. If one exists the other will follow, or better 

Still, will not be needed. —Henry D. Chapin. 



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I believe that the mind can be profaned by the 
habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our 
thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. —Thoreau. 

There is only one real failure possible; and that is, 

not to be true to the best one knows. 

— Canon Farrar. 

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because 
the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. 

— Hegel. 

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as 
sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of 

the corn. —Emerson. 

The truest self-respect is not to think of self. 

— Henry Ward Beechcr. 

Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win, 

By fearing to attempt. —Shakespeare. 

Do not talk about the lantern that holds the lamp; 
but make haste, uncover the light, and let it shine. 

— George Macdonald. 



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LIGHT. 

All love thee, but none can express thee, 

Or pierce to the core of thy heart ; 
The poet in dreams may half guess thee, 

And faintly divine what thou art : 
But the song that would sing thee is broken, 

The lips quiver once and are still, 
And thy mystery, ever unspoken, 

Is left for the future to fill. 

— Anne Sheldon Coombs. 



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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is 
an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a 
person's money as his time. -Horace Ma?tn. 

Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what 

the world calls wisdom. —Coleridge. 

The great thing in the world is not so much where 
we stand, as in what direction we are moving. 

— Holmes. 

What an antiseptic is a pure life ! —Lowell. 

It is good to be children sometimes, and never 
better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder 

was a child himself. Charles Dickens. 

When the sun rises, I see an innumerable company 
of the heavenly host crying, — "Holy, holy, holy, is 
the Lord God Almighty." —William Blake. 

The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly 
Father is to be kind to some of his other children. 

— Henry Drummond. 



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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, 
Nothing so gentle as real strength. 

— Si. Francis de Sales. 

Science keeps down the weed of superstition, not 
by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its 
cultivation. —Tyndall. 

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet 
it, — whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack 
it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night 
comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise 
to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep 
us delightful company all dayj and who will make us 
feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. 

— Lucy Larcom. 

"For no one doth know 

What he can bestow, 
What light, strength, and beauty may after him go ; 

Thus onward we move, 

And, save God above, 
None guesseth how wondrous the journey may prove." 

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. 

— Shakespeare. 



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The moment a man can really do his work, lie 
becomes speechless about it. All words become idle 
to him — all theories. —Ruskin. 

What if it does look likely to rain, it is fine now ! 

— / Villi a m S m ith . 

God is ever drawing like toward like, and making 
them acquainted. —Homer. 

If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one 
and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul. 

—Koran. 

I always seek the good that is in people and leave 
the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how 

to round off the corners. —Goethe's Mother. 

The prosperity of a nation depends upon the health 
and morals of its citizens, and the health and morals 
of a people depend mainly upon the food they eat and 
the houses they live in. The time has come when we 
must have a science of domestic economy, and it must 
be worked out in the homes of our educated women. 
A knowledge of the elements of chemistry and physics 
must be applied to the daily living. 

• — Ellen H. Richards. 



I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber your- 
self and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this 
woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bedcham- 
ber made ready at too great a cost. These things, if 
they are curious in, they can get for a dollar at any 
village. But let this stranger, if he will, in your looks, 
in your accent and behavior, read your heart and 
earnestness, your thought and will, which he cannot 
buy at any price in any village or city, and which he 
may well travel fifty miles and dine sparely and sleep 
hard in order to behold. Certainly, let the board be 
spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveler ; but 
let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things. 
Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge 
of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and 
reads the laws of the universe. —Emerson. 



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Is he dead whose glorious mind 

Lifts thine on high ? 
To live in hearts we leave behind 

Is not to die. —Campbell 

Three things return not, e'en for prayers and tears- 

The arrow which the archer shoots at will ; 

The spoken word, keen-edged and sharp to sting ; 

The opportunity left unimproved. 

If thou would'st speak a word of loving cheer, 

Oh, speak it now. This moment is thine own. 

— Nellie M. Richardson . 



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Music to the mind is as air to the body. 

—Plato. 



"The highest mounted mind," he said, 
"Still sees the sacred morning spread, 
The silent summit overhead." —Tennyson. 

We lose vigor through thinking continually the 
same set of thoughts. New thought is new life. 

— Prentice Mulford. 

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always 
more divine than it seems, and hence w r e are able to 
survive degradations and despairs which otherwise 

must engulf US. —Henry James. 

I wait for my story — the birds cannot sing it, 

Not one, as he sits on the tree ; 
The bells cannot ring it, but long years, O bring it ! 

Such as I wish it to be. —Jean Ingelow. 

It is only to the finest natures that age gives an 
added beauty and distinction ; for the most persistent 
self has then worked its way to the surface, having 
modified the expression, and to some extent, the 
features, to its own likeness. —Mathilde Blind. 



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The best way of revenge is not to imitate the 

injury. —Marcus Aurelius. 

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. 

— Thoreau. 

Fate is impenetrated causes. —Emerson. 

There has never been a great or beautiful character 
which has not become so by filling well the ordinary 
and smaller offices appointed by God. 

— Horace Bushnell. 

li It heeds not whence begins our thinking, 
If to the end its flight is high." 

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible 
objections must be first overcome. —Dr. Johnson. 

To find his place and fill it is success for a man. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

I pack my troubles in as little compass as I can for 

myself, and never let them annoy others. 

— Southey. 

<l Those who fail in life are very apt to assume that 
every one except themselves has had a hand in their 
misfortunes." 



11 He serves his country best 

Who lives pure life, and doeth righteous deed, 
And walks straight paths, however others stray: 
And leaves his sons an uttermost bequest, 
A stainless record which all men may read : 
This is the better way. 

" No drop but serves the slowly lifting tide, 
No dew but has an errand to some flower, 
No smallest star but sheds some helpful ray ; 
And man by man, each giving to all the rest, 
Makes the firm bulwark of the country's power : 
There is no better way." 



" Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of Nature 
with which she indicates how much she loves us." 

He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer 
to the rocks. —Herve. 

Teach by your lives. —Bondr. 

Who waits until the winds shall silent keep, 

Will never have the ready hour to sow ; 
Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. 

— Helen Hunt Jackson. 

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their 
tremendous difficulties. —spurgeon. 

Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense 
Of service which thou renderest. 

— E. B. Browning . 

" Live blameless ; God is near." 

— Inscribed over the door of the house of Linncsus, 
at Hamnierby , Sweden. 



I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend 

even disaster. —Catherine of Russia. 

Enthusiasm : The sense of this word among the 
Greeks affords the noblest definition of it, namely, 
1 ■ God in US. " —Mme. de Stael. 

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. 
Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but 
what they intended. —Thoreau. 

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites 

by severity. —St. Francis de Sales. 

The nearer you come into relation with a person, 
the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. 

— Holmes. 

The healing of the world 
Is in its nameless saints. Each separate star 
Seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars 
Break up the night, and make it beautiful. 

— E. B. Browning. 

Courage, Sir, 
That makes a man or woman look their goodliest. 

— Tennyson: 



I have seen 
A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract 
Of inland ground, applying to his ear 
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; 
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul 
Listened intently; and his countenance soon 
Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within 
Were heard, — sonorous cadences ! whereby 
To his belief the monitor expressed 
Mysterious union with its native sea. 
Even such a shell the universe itself 
Is to the ear of Faith. —Wordsworth. 



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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness; alto- 
gether past calculation its power of endurance. 

— Carhle. 

Anxiety is good for nothing, if we cannot turn it 
into a defense. —George Eliot. 

To hate a man for his errors is as unwise as to hate 
one who, in casting up an account, has made an error 

against himself. —Robertson. 

Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing, 
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. 

— Emerson. 

Deep streams run still — and why? Not because 
there are no obstacles, but because they altogether 
overflow those stones or rocks round which the shallow 
stream has to make its noisy way. -^William Smith. 

''Cold and reserved natures should remember that 
though not unfrequently flowers may be found beneath 
the snow, it is chilly work to dig for them, and few care 
to take the trouble.'' 



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Still seems it strange that thou should'st live forever? 
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? 

— Young. 



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A MORNING THOUGHT. 

What if some morning-, when the stars were paling, 
And the dawn whitened, and the East was clear, 

Strange peace and rest fell on me from the presence 
Of a benignant Spirit standing near : 

And I should tell him, as he stood beside me, 

"This is our Earth — most friendly Earth, and fair; 

Daily its sea and shore through sun and shadow 
Faithful it turns, robed in its azure air: 

"There is blest living here, loving and serving, 
And quest of truth, and serene friendships dear; 

But stay not, Spirit ! Earth has one destroyer — 
His name is Death : flee, lest he find thee here ! " 

And what if then, while the still morning brightened, 
And freshened in the elm the Summer's breath, 

Should gravely smile on me the gentle angel 

And take my hand and say, "My name is Death." 

— Edward Rowland Sill. 



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THE POETS PRAYER. 

If there be some weaker one, 
Give me strength to help him on ; 
If a blinder soul there be, 
Let me guide him nearer Thee; 
Make my mortal dreams come true 
With the work I fain would do ; 
Clothe with life the weak intent, 
Let me be the thing I meant ; 
Let me find in Thy employ, 
Peace that dearer is than joy ; 
Out of self to love be led, 
And to heaven acclimated, 
Until all things sweet and good 
Seem my natural habitude. 

—J. G. Whittier. 



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Waste no tears 
Upon the blotted record of lost years, 
But turn the leaf, and smile, oh, smile, to see 
The fair white pages that remain for thee. 

— Ella JVheeler Wilcox. 

Each has his features, whose exterior seal 
A brush may copy or a sunbeam steal ; 
Go to his study, on the nearest shelf 
Stands the mosaic portrait of himself. 

— Holmes. 



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Nothing new can be said about a New Year. It is 
the time to take account of the old, repent of our sins, 
carry mistakes to profit and loss, and transform their 
crude ore to golden wisdom. It brings little that is 
new beside itself, and we only exchange the irretriev- 
able past for the hopeful future, the dead certainty for 
the living uncertainty. The conquests of intelligence 
have not perceptibly reduced the area of the unknown. 
The guides of life are not demonstrations, but opin- 
ions, judgments, probabilities and faith. New contin- 
gencies arise with new discoveries, and every new fact 
has a group of new unfixed circumstances. The future 
event is as uncertain to-day as it ever was. The only 
certainty is principle ; as new as to-day, and as old as 
the Universe. —Horatio Stebbins. 



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If I cannot realize my Ideal, I can at least idealize 

my Real. — W. C. Gannett. 

"Beware of the common error; let self-reliance be 
the rule, and reliance on others the exception." 

"For right too rigid hardens into wrong." 

We are too busy, too encumbered, too much occu- 
pied, too active ! We read too much ! The one thing 
needful is to throw off all one's load of cares, and to 
become again young, living happily and gracefully in 
the present hour. We must know how to put occu- 
pation aside, which does not mean that we must be 
idle. — Translation— Mrs . Humphrey Ward. 

Out of the shadows of night 
The world rolls into light ; 

It is daybreak everywhere. 

— Longfellow. 
(Last words from his pen.) 

Every evil thought or deed has sentence against it 
speedily executed in the character. 

— Marion D. Shutter. 



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SOMETIME. 

Sometime when all life's lessons have been learned, 

And sun and stars forever more have set, 

The thing which our weak judgments here have 

spurned, 
The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet, 
Will flash before us out of life's dark night, 
As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue ; 
And we shall see how all God's plans are right, 
And how what seemed reproof was love most true. 

But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart, 
God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold, 
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart, 
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. 
And if, through patient toil, we reach the land 
Where tired feet, with sandals loose, may rest, 
When we shall clearly see and understand, 
I think that we will say, "God knew the best." 

— M. R. Smith. 



Think when our one soul understands 
The great word which makes all things new, 

When earth breaks up, and heaven expands, 
How will the change strike me and you 

In the house not made with hands? —Browning. 

Others shall sing the song, 
Others shall right the wrong, — 
Finish what I begin, 
And all I fail of win. 

What matter I or they, 
Mine or another's day, 
So the right word be said, 
And life the sweeter made. 

—Whittier. 

God's goodness hath been great to thee ; 
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, 
But still remember what the Lord hath done. 

— Shakespeare. 



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I can but trust that good shall fall 
At last — far off— at last, to all, 

And every winter turn to spring. 

— Tennyson. 

When in the mid-day march we meet 

The outstretched shadows of the night, 
The promise, how divinely sweet, 
"At even-time it shall be light." 

— Alice Cary. 



Take these thoughts with you for the year; go 
down into the valley with your brothers, and work 

them OUt in life. —Stopford A. Brooke. 



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INDEX OF POEMS. 

Earth Captive Held Alice Ward Bailey . 13 

Friendship Emerson 15 

If Fortune with a Smiling Face Anon 18 

Christmas in California . . . E. R. Sill 19 

Faithful unto Death Chas. W. Wendte . . 22 

I Will Be Worthy of It ... Ella Wheeler Wilcox . 25 

Daffodils Wordsworth .... 27 

At Chrystemasse Tyde .... Anon 31 

The Fool's Prayer E. R. Sill 37 

Each and All Emerson 41 

Nature Never Did Betray . . . Wordsworth ... 44 

A Dew Drop Trench 46 

Memory Thomas Bailey Aldrich 54 

Beauty Emerson 61 

Light . . . .« Anne S. Coombs ... 67 

He Serves His Country Best . Anon 75 

From "The Excursion" .... Wordsworth .... 78 

A Morning Thought E. R. Sill 81 

A Poet's Prayer Whittier 82 

Sometime M. R. Smith .... 86 



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Alcott, Louisa May, 10. 
Alger, W. R., 24, 29. 
Augustine St., 39. 
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 

58. 



54, 55, 



Beeeher, Henry Ward, 10, 66. 
Bacon, 12, 55, 62. 
Bailey, Alice Ward, 13. 
Buxton, Charles, 17, 53. 
Browning, 23, 30, 47, 49, 52, 63, 87. 
Barnum, P. T., 24. 
Brooks, Phillips, 24, 33, 74. 
Byron, 35. 

Beaumont, Joseph, 42. 
Browning, E. B., 47, 62, 63, 76, 77. 
Blake, Wm, 58, 68. 
Burritt, Elihu, 64, 
Blind, Mathilde, 73. 
Bushnell, Horace, 74. 
Bonar, 76. 

Brooke, Stop ford A., 89. 
Butts, Mary Frances, 56. 

Coleridge, 53, 68. 
Campbell, 72. 
Catherine of Russia, 77. 
Clarke, James Freeman, 9, 12. 
Carlyle, 12, 21, 79. 



Channing, 20, 39, 51, 62. 

Cary, Alice, 21, 43, 51, 88. 

Clough, A. H., 51. 

Cecil, R., 53. 

Chinese, 65. 

Chapin, Henry D., 65. 

Coombs, Anne S., 67. 

Dickinson, Emily, 29. 
Deschamps, 35. 
Dickens, Charles, 68. 
Drummond, Henry, 6S. 

Emerson, 12, 15, 16, 23, 30, 32, 36, 
39,40,41,42,45,48,52,53,61, 
65, 66, 71, 74, 79. 

Eliot, Geo., 23, 55, 63, 64, 79. 

Epictetus, 65. 

Fuller, Margaret, 45. 
Farrar, Canon, 66. 

Goethe, 36. 
Goethe's Mother, 70. 
Gannett, W. C, 85. 

Hugo, Victor, 11. 

Harpe, La, 21. 

Higginson, Thomas W., 21. 



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Hazard, Caroline, 24. 
Howe, Julia Ward, 28. 
Holland, J. G., 10, 35. 
Holmes, 35, 68, 77, 83. 
Hindu, 39, 42, 64. 
Hamerton, 40, 50. 
Hegeman, Mrs. A. B., 56. 
Hall, Bishop, 57. 
Hegel, 66. 
Homer, 70. 
Herve, 76. 

Ingelow, Jean, 73. 

Joubert, 29. 
James, Henry, 73. 
Johnson, Dr., 74. 
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 76. 

Kingsley, 60. 
Koran, 70. 

Lowell, 5, 17, 21, 30, 47, 48, 51, 55, 

57, 58, 63, 68. 
Lareom, Lucy, 16, 69. 
La Harpe, 21. 

Longfellow, 30, 33, 40, 57, 85. 
Locke, John, 48. 
Le Conte, Joseph, 59. 
Lemoine, 63. 
Linnaeus, 76. 

Macdonald, 7, 21, 24, 66. 
Marcus Aurelius, 10, 29, 35, 51, 

74- 
Massillon, 24. 
Montaigne, 24, 39. 



Mulford, Prentice, 40, 73. 
Martineau, 42. 
Mann, Horace, 68. 
Moulton, Louisa Chandler, 46. 

Procter, Adelaide A., 11. 
Plato, 73. 

Ruskin, John, 29, 35, 53, 64, 70. 
Richter, Jean Paul, 33. 
Richards, Ellen H., 70. 
Richardson, Nellie M., 72. 
Robertson, 79. 

Sidney, Sir Philip, 10. 
Story, W. W., 16. 
Shakespeare, 17, 32, 40, 47, 48, 

66, 69, 87. 
Sill, Edward Rowland, 19, 37, 

81. 
Savage, Minot J., 23, 32, 42. 
Simpson, Bishop, 32. 
Swetchine, Madame, 45. 
Schiller, 47. 
Scott, Sir Walter, 52. 
Sales, St. Francis de, 69, 77. 
Stael, Madame de, 77. 
Smith, Wm., 70, 79. 
Southey, 74. 
Spurgeon > 76. 
Shutter, Marion D., 85. 
Smith, M. R., 86. 
Stebbins, Horatio, 84. 

Thoreau, 12, 17, 23, 26, 30, 33, 34, 

53, 55, 57, 63, 66, 74, 77. 
Tholuck, 12. 



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Temple, Sir William, 17. 
Trench, 46. 

Tennyson, 39, 62, 73, 77, 88. 
Tyndall, 69. 

Voltaire, 62. 

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 25, 28, 83. 
Wordsworth, 27, 44, 45, 47, 78. 
Whittier, 30, 37, 55, 62, 65, 82, 



Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 

32. 
White, Blanco, 33. 
W T estcott, Canon, 52. 
Warner, Anna, 58. 
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, 85. 
Wendte, Chas. W., 22. 

Young, 80. 

Zoroaster, 48, 58. 



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